Amid an avalanche of speculation about the future of the Warriors—who came into the offseason looking to make a big splash—general manager Larry Riley appeared on San Francisco radio station KNBR to talk about the team’s plans. And he was exceptionally open, making no bones about the team’s desire to land free agent Tyson Chandler. In recent days the team has gone all out to direct Chandler to the Bay Area.

Asked whether the Warriors’ plans right now are Chandler first, second and third, Riley chuckled and said, “You got it. You stated it. Is it necessary to evaluate everything? Obviously, it is. But you’ve got the picture of where we are.”

Landing Chandler will require the Warriors to lay out a four-year contract in the neighborhood of $60 million, which would force Golden State to use its amnesty provision on a player, probably center Andris Biedrins. Riley and the team can’t make a formal offer to Chandler until Friday, but he was enthusiastic about the Warriors’ prospects.

“I will break with tradition a little bit—normally, we don’t talk trades, we don’t get into these kinds of things. I will tell you, Tyson Chandler is a guy we would really love to have here in the Bay Area,” Riley told KNBR. “That’s not breaking news. What I am doing is confirming that a lot of the stuff you’re hearing around him, we are working as hard as we can and we’re well satisfied that we’re in the hunt.”

What isn’t certain is when, exactly, Chandler will make his decision. Ideally, it would be Friday. But, Riley said, “The ball is going to be in Tyson’s court and his agent and that kind of thing when it comes to decision time. I wish I could tell you how soon a decision will be made. But that’s a little bit out of our reach as far as being able to determine that. Things are going well, we’re in the hunt, we like where we are, we’ve done all kinds of things.”

“I’ll give you as much as I can,” Riley said. “I wouldn’t get overly excited in regards to something like that. Do we look at all these things? Absolutely. But let’s talk about getting a free-agent center as the likelihood. The trade concept, that’s way down the line. Now, could we trade for somebody early in training camp or sometime early in the season? Yes, we could. But I am a lot less likely to embrace that concept. Do we have to investigate that? Absolutely we do. Any time there is a player, a star player, and you didn’t get in the hunt and do your investigations and do your evaluations, that’s wrong. But to get excited, let’s put that on the back burner.”